The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind – Part II
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I’m going to take a break today from posting about my NLP training…even though it is so powerful, and finish a post I started last week – The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind – Part I
When we understand what drives the unconscious mind, that is, what are its’ critical responsibilities, we are then better able to work with it and affect lasting change.
To continue….
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 11
The Unconscious Mind enjoys serving, and it needs clear orders.
The Unconscious Mind needs really clear orders to follow. The problem is that most people give the Unconscious Mind inconsistent orders. You know, like one day … “I’m looking so handsome and so beautiful” and the next day you look in the mirror and say … “Oh God, I look awful.” … and the poor Unconscious Mind gets confused. Or, one day, “I’m a great person,” and the next day, “I’m no good” … and the Unconscious Mind gets confused and isn’t sure what it should do.
One of the most important things we can do, with regards to this Prime Directive, that is, that since ‘The Unconscious Mind enjoys serving, but needs clear orders to follow,’ one of the most important things that we can do, is to give our Unconscious Mind consistent direction … consistent directives.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 11
The Unconscious Mind controls and maintains all perceptions.
This includes both those which are regular, and those which are telepathic, and it receives and transmits these perceptions to the Conscious Mind.
Anytime we want to increase our ability to perceive, we would work with the Unconscious Mind. That means that you could talk to the Unconscious Mind, and ask it to increase the perception, even regular perception, such as vision, or hearing. You can ask the Unconscious Mind, and the Unconscious Mind will improve the hearing or the vision if you simply work with the Unconscious Mind to have it do that.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 12
The Unconscious Mind is in charge of the generation, the storage, the distribution and the transmission of energy throughout the body.
So if someone does actually want more energy, or feels like they have low energy, the Unconscious Mind can be encouraged, and given the opportunity to increase the amount of energy and the low energy symptoms can certainly be decreased dramatically, or it can even disappear.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 13
The Unconscious Mind is in charge of instincts and generating habits.
Those are two different things by the way. Let’s talk about instincts first. Instincts include thing like the Fight-or-Flight Response. That’s an instinct. If you are threatened, what will happen is that the flight or fight response will kick in, and you’ll choose one of those. You’ll choose either ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ and the Unconscious Mind will simply kick in and you will either get out of the way, safe by running, by doing ‘flight’ … or you’ll stay there and fight.
In addition the Unconscious Mind is also in charge of generating habits. There can be Good and Bad habits… and typically the Unconscious Mind will need repetition, until a habit is installed.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 14
The Unconscious Mind will need repetition, until a new habit is installed.
Changing Strategies using NLP, or Swish Patterns, often change habits by themselves, and therefore, the Unconscious Mind will not need that much repetition if we are using NLP to change a habit.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 15
The Unconscious Mind is programmed to continually seek more and more …
This means there is always more to discover. The Unconscious Mind generally functions by comparison, and each time it looks for a little bit more … and more.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 16
The Unconscious Mind functions best as a whole, integrated unit, and that means that it does not need Parts to function.
This is also one of the Presuppositions of NLP, which maintain that all procedures should increase wholeness. It is best to have an integrated wholeness at the unconscious level … not fragmented into Parts, but an integrated wholeness. This involves Parts Integration, to increase that. Any time you have ‘incongruence’, Parts Integration is the answer.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 17
The Unconscious Mind is symbolic. It uses, and responds, to symbols.
In western Psychology the first person to discover this was Carl Jung, and in his book ‘Psyche and Symbol’ he was one of the first to point out that the Unconscious Mind works and thinks in symbols and responds to symbols.
This is important regarding your memories of your past. A lot of what the Unconscious Mind gives us may be symbolic, and may actually not be the event or item which is represented. You can test this out yourself. Ask a brother, or a sister, or one of your other family members, about their recollection of a major family event. More than likely, it will be totally different from yours. What you remember is simply what you remember, and usually, what you remember is a symbolic representation, and not an actual representation of what really went on.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 18
The Unconscious Mind takes everything personally.
This by the way, this is basis for what psychologists mean when they say that ‘Perception is Projection’. The Unconscious Mind takes everything personally. Every time you look outside yourself, and you point the finger at someone else, and say … “That’s not me, that’s that person …” and so forth … your Unconscious Mind thinks you are thinking that of you.
So the unconscious takes everything personally is like a double edged sword. It’s actually both good and bad. It’s good if you can get in control of your thinking. Dr Tad James tells a story of a famous Swami who told him to “See everyone as being divine!” … and Dr James thought to himself “Wow! How can he say that? Does he even mean the bum out on the street outside here … that this person is divine?” … and of course, he did mean that. It’s a great meditation, because if you see that person as divine, then you see yourself as divine.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 19
The Unconscious Mind works on the principle of least effort, it works on the path of least resistance.
The Unconscious Mind will do as little as it possibly can, to produce the kind of results you’ve asked it for. That’s important because it means we need to pin down the Unconscious Mind when we are asking it to make change. Always remember that “the Unconscious Mind works on the principle of least effort, it works on the path of least resistance” and that simply means we need to get real specific with the Unconscious Mind, so that we pin it down as to where it’s going and what we want it to do.
Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 20
The Unconscious Mind does not process negatives.
If I say to you … “Don’t think of a blue tree!”, of course you’re thinking of a blue tree. So we have to be careful to suggest to people that they make the kinds of changes we want them to make. Now we could tell them what ‘not to think’… for example, I could say to you … “I don’t want you to think it will be really, really easy for you to make this change.” … and of course your Unconscious Mind will pick up… “it will be really, really easy for you to make this change”… and hear that, primarily over and above when I say … “I don’t want you to think that”. This is a very important Prime Directive, because it allows us to utilize the way the Unconscious Mind already thinks, in the process of being able to make change.
I go over some of these directives and how to utilize them in my e-book “How to Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior.”
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